Religious beliefs mask right-wing politics

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Published: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 01:54 PM.

Jeremy Troxler’s guest column in the Nov. 24 Times-News is the same old stuff peddled perpetually by the hyper-religious from the right. Its arguments and conclusions rely on Mr. Troxler’s faith, nothing more.

But, he is eager, as are most on the right to marshal political philosophers from an age in which fewer than 18 percent of the European population in North America was “churched” to justify his religious claims to have a theocracy in the United States subject to direct “Christian” rule.

Mr. Troxler’s underlying assertion is simple: without Christianity, there is no morality. Wrong! Anyone with willingness to look at history can learn of a myriad of political and religious systems which drove morality in the name of some greater society and order.

But, Mr. Troxler has arranged himself as moralist, worried about how to impose his religious views on others. By the way, his argument, religion must rule government, is the operating principle of the political right who adopted the evangelical and fundamentalist sects over the past 30 years, making many miserable and doing nothing.

No theocracy, thank you.

Mr. Troxler seems sure he can hide the poison in his theories in fancy talk and long dead philosophers, whom he feels free to misuse.

Jeremy Troxler’s guest column in the Nov. 24 Times-News is the same old stuff peddled perpetually by the hyper-religious from the right. Its arguments and conclusions rely on Mr. Troxler’s faith, nothing more.

But, he is eager, as are most on the right to marshal political philosophers from an age in which fewer than 18 percent of the European population in North America was “churched” to justify his religious claims to have a theocracy in the United States subject to direct “Christian” rule.

Mr. Troxler’s underlying assertion is simple: without Christianity, there is no morality. Wrong! Anyone with willingness to look at history can learn of a myriad of political and religious systems which drove morality in the name of some greater society and order.

But, Mr. Troxler has arranged himself as moralist, worried about how to impose his religious views on others. By the way, his argument, religion must rule government, is the operating principle of the political right who adopted the evangelical and fundamentalist sects over the past 30 years, making many miserable and doing nothing.

No theocracy, thank you.

Mr. Troxler seems sure he can hide the poison in his theories in fancy talk and long dead philosophers, whom he feels free to misuse.